Open Ports on Your Router for Yakuza 0

Yakuza 0 is an Action and Adventure game published by Sega released in 2015.

Yakuza 0 has the following styles of play.

• Games that are considered action are all about centering the player in the middle of an evolving situation.
• An adventure game is where the player is usually the protagonist and plays through an evolving story. The storyline is the driving part of an adventure game.

When you are playing Yakuza 0 you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and intermittently even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.

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Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

• The IP address of your router.
• The IP address of the device that the game will play on: either your computer or your console.
• A list of TCP and UDP ports to forward.

The easiest way to locate your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

The easiest way to do this is to use Network Utilities. Network Utilities can forward your ports in just a few clicks, and close them back down when you are done just as easily. You can also do it the manual way.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

• Open a web browser and navigate to your router's IP address.
• Find your routers port forwarding section.
• Put the IP address of your computer or gaming console in the appropriate box in your router.
• Put the TCP and UDP ports for your game in the corresponding boxes in your router.
• Intermittently you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

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The specific ports for Yakuza 0 are as follows:

Yakuza 0 - Playstation 3

• TCP: 3478-3480, 5223, 8080
• UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 3658

Yakuza 0 - Playstation 4

• TCP: 1935, 3478-3480
• UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Yakuza 0 - Steam

• TCP: 27015-27030, 27036-27037
• UDP: 4380, 27000-27031, 27036

Yakuza 0 - PC

• We do not know the PC ports for Yakuza 0 yet. If you know them please send us a message using our Message System.

Yakuza 0 - Xbox One

• TCP: 3074
• UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500

We have guides that are custom tailored for Yakuza 0 that will show you the network ports.

• Yakuza 0 - Playstation 3
• Yakuza 0 - Playstation 4
• Yakuza 0 - Steam
• Yakuza 0 - Xbox One

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